The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-16

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No man has q good eye for prophecy. nor
Q good head for current events, unless he has
been q careful student Of the past To fore
cast tho future Of society. then. and 10 study
Ito interests, It will be best 10 keep In Wow the
history Of the last two or three hundred years.
The Anglo Saxon race, with its cooperative
Celtic branches, may be pardoned for being q
little self-complacent and egotfstical. II 10
younger In It's carear than any other Euro
pean race and during many centuries II lacked
the territorial advantages possessed BY its
rivals, and It stu lacks their advantages In
population. Yet II has accomplished more
In the chief exploits that 90 to make up
national greatness. and contributed moro to
the achievements Of modern civilization, than
all the other races combined. It has given
uniform language to moro than ono hundred
millions OF people. q language enriched By
literature which. upon the whole. from Chau-
Ger to Herbert Spencer. In science. philosophy,
history. law, poetry, romance and criticism
rivals II It does not aurpass tho literature OF all
the othor modern nations OF Continental
Europe. This declaration may cause an
italian. q Frenohman. o German, or dwelier
upon tho Iberian peninsula to stand aghast;
but We know the literature Of those people bet
ter than they know Anglo-Saxon literature.
It has contributed nearly all the important In
ventions that add to tho comfort and convcn-
ience Of modern society. Obliterate tho elects
Of It's mechanical and scientific devices
from the face Of modern civilization and the
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OF printing. a Chinese art originally, but ored-
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that have Influenced modern ciytlfZati9n Ia
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the e combined wealth Of all other countries that
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innate will be found 50 nearly equal t that II
derance inciines. In almost everything tina.
| speaks Of .achieyement save the musicai and
fine as IL the Fa ssnass e
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ization we ind the answer % this question:
The race advances moro rapidly than other
ior psomSsins the interests q society
From the reign Of the R sSrtsr
seaa and h foiowns shroush ~ re earlier ana
| later years OF our own republic. there has been
test in favor Of personal INDEPENDENCE and tn,
e ssssssS n. sss. $sss
contest have not found F their most s ne
ths continually crumbine debris 81 ieadSl q:
and sos al
mnnities the Individual and society have long
the ss objects TIA Of sSer de
tie latter through It's oficial representatiyes,
pany hat gave india to The United kinsdem:;
vast vast i territory dates back only about cen.
fury, but the East India Company traces its
tSss Rss soas 4 sax. g os;
ana prepared the conditions for English
s9PR ostpss through her Government tried for
| 9 hundred years to effect the conquest q the
ieassa snd driven nv 81 BY handfu
than simple charter from the Crown; Granted
government that would be more honpred II {,
ss@slas taa 81 fasIis6 masters nor
by being spRieoted to official direction dir Cor
many and France nave recently 9eoome am.
iecs Of SIX tkeir desires until German and French
SSepD IL STs 4ls
| The history Of England shows that 1t takes q
ssir ior%
the nuesas q soogs Is ,Ssa
RevcIutienary var This f. isrsely 2 mis-:
so7esnment The remained eraoseal9
unchanged sitel the close 10 81 host nt and
IN the DEW q Sa rs Fa shs
founders Of or institutions to preserve the
political syst& az ne ,,y Inject as possible
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Europe prf failed. the spirit which prevails
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eonside1d.. the Instincts Of the people were
The
iersiaA ers held uns6sllen eed ths RIGHTS which.
Of Isl, led to the revolt Of the commnnes. with
withpl its disastrous and .unfruitful oonse-
d fioosIaimply carried Anglo. saxon institutions
onebtep further in the direction Of personal
so|eignty. Their task was not one OF de-
stpbtion and reconstruction. They estab-
lisbd no political or social system now or
| revolutionary In its elementary principles.
Tb United States became only more highly
Effected united kingdom. and their local in
I'd with their colonial charters and laws.
IjBut as the country had taken q step, and q
decisive STEP In the overthrow Of privilege It
was to be expected that the instinct OF personal
United States than It had proved even in Eng
land. 1t was to be presumed that o stronger
feeling Of self dependence would take possess
sion q the people and lead to o highor standard
Of personal aehievement such. indeed. has
tion Of our INSTITUTIONS. No country
ence. subject to no onicial restraint,
has been So. strong, as In the United
States and 1t will not be boastful to say that in
no country. has half 30 much been accom-
plished In the same length OF time, But the
achievement, and no Individual, operating
through anything else than the independent
to have been more than q second or third-rate